Dangote Emerges 66th Most Powerful Person In The World

The 2018 Forbes World Most Powerful People list is out and Africa’s richest man and Nigerian business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is the only Nigerian to make the 75 Most Powerful People in 2018.

He’s pegged on 66th position coming a spot ahead of Vice President of the United States of America, Mike Pence who’s pegged on number 67 on the list.

Four factors were taken into account to select each of the World’s Most Powerful People: how many people over whom they have power; the financial resources they control; if they have influence in more than one sphere; and how actively they wield their power to change the world.

China’s president, Xi Jinping for what he was able to pull off this year, is one the number 1 spot. In March, 2018, China’s congress amended its constitution in March, eliminating term limits and broadening Xi’s influence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (No. 2) has been knocked out of the top spot, a title that he held for four consecutive years. President Donald Trump, a little over one year into his term, falls to the No. 3 spot.

See full list below…

	#1	Xi Jinping	China	64
	#2	Vladimir Putin	Russia	65
	#3	Donald Trump	United States	71
	#4	Angela Merkel	Germany	63
	#5	Jeff Bezos	Amazon.com	54
	#6	Pope Francis	Roman Catholic Church	81
	#7	Bill Gates	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	62
	#8	Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud	Saudi Arabia	32
	#9	Narendra Modi	India	67
	#10	Larry Page	Google	45
	#11	Jerome H. Powell	United States	65
	#12	Emmanuel Macron	France	40
	#13	Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	33
	#14	Theresa May	United Kingdom	61
	#15	Li Keqiang	China	62
	#16	Warren Buffett	Berkshire Hathaway	87
	#17	Ali Hoseini-Khamenei	Iran	78
	#18	Mario Draghi	European Central Bank	70
	#19	Jamie Dimon	JPMorgan Chase	62
	#20	Carlos Slim Helu	America Movil SAB de CV (ADR)	78
	#21	Jack Ma	Alibaba Group	53
	#22	Christine Lagarde	International Monetary Fund	62
	#23	Doug McMillon	Wal-Mart Stores	51
	#24	Tim Cook	Apple	57
	#25	Elon Musk	Tesla	46
	#26	Benjamin Netanyahu	Israel	68
	#27	Ma Huateng	Tencent Holdings	46
	#28	Larry Fink	BlackRock	65
	#29	Akio Toyoda	Toyota Motor	62
	#30	John L. Flannery	General Electric	56
	#31	Antonio Guterres	United Nations	69
	#32	Mukesh Ambani	Reliance Industries Ltd.	61
	#33	Jean-Claude Juncker	European Union	63
	#34	Darren Woods	ExxonMobil	53
	#35	Sergey Brin	Alphabet	44
	#36	Kim Jong-un	North Korea	34
	#37	Charles Koch	Koch Industries	82
	#38	Shinzo Abe	Japan	63
	#39	Rupert Murdoch	News Corp	87
	#40	Satya Nadella	Microsoft	50
	#41	Jim Yong Kim	World Bank	58
	#42	Stephen Schwarzman	Blackstone Group	71
	#43	Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan	United Arab Emirates	70
	#44	Haruhiko Kuroda	Japan	73
	#45	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	Egypt	63
	#46	Li Ka-shing	CK Hutchison Holdings	89
	#47	Lloyd Blankfein	Goldman Sachs Group	63
	#48	Recep Tayyip Erdogan	Turkey	64
	#49	Bob Iger	Walt Disney	67
	#50	Michel Temer	Brazil	77
	#51	Michael Bloomberg	Bloomberg	76
	#52	Wang Jianlin	Dalian Wanda Group	63
	#53	Mary Barra	General Motors	56
	#54	Moon Jae-in	South Korea	65
	#55	Masayoshi Son	Softbank Corp.	60
	#56	Bernard Arnault	LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton	69
	#57	Justin Trudeau	Canada	46
	#58	Robin Li	Baidu	49
	#59	Michael Dell	Dell	53
	#60	Hui Ka Yan	Evergrande Real Estate Group	59
	#61	Lee Hsien Loong	Singapore	66
	#62	Bashar al-Assad	Syria	52
	#63	John Roberts	United States	63
	#64	Enrique Pena Nieto	Mexico	51
	#65	Ken Griffin	Citadel LLC	49
	#66	Aliko Dangote	Dangote Group	61
	#67	Mike Pence	United States	58
	#68	Qamar Javed Bajwa	Pakistan	57
	#69	Rodrigo Duterte	Philippines	73
	#70	Abigail Johnson	Fidelity Investments	56
	#71	Reed Hastings	Netflix	57
	#72	Robert Mueller	United States	73
	#73	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	Islamic State	46
	#74	Joko Widodo	Indonesia	56
	#75	Gianni Infantino	FIFA